"Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain……" — Robert Graves
"Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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More Blotting Quotes
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin…
— Conrad Veidt
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile…
— Plato
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This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
— Heinrich Bullinger
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a…
— John Millington Synge
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to…
— Haruki Murakami
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It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having…
— Julie Walters
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Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find…
— Augustus William Hare
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and…
— Khloe Kardashian
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
— Will Self
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes…
— Sarah Dessen
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